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Bridge to Sovietopia
IDFA 2020

Bridge to Sovietopia

Marie Alice Wolfszahn
Austria, Germany, Ukraine
2020
16 min
World Premiere
Festival history

Like an invisible spirit, the user of this VR is guided through the architectural remains of a lost utopia. In three chapters, entitled Progress, Productivity, and Ideology, rusty monuments to the scientific, industrial, and cultural achievements of the Soviet Union glide by. A memento mori for every worldly power.

The Institute of Ionosphere owned the largest parabolic antenna in the Soviet Union and was able to generate bursts of electricity more powerful than natural lightning. The colossal factories of Kryvyi Rih, which are still in use, were at the heart of the national steel industry. And the stars of the USSR once glittered at the now derelict and abandoned Ilyich Palace of Culture.

The user floats serenely through the flaking structures of the former Soviet state of Ukraine, which are still impressive in their size and ambition. Meanwhile, the audio design combines an electronic soundscape with fragments of voices and singing, echoes of a bygone dream of the future.

 


Credits
Director
Production
    Kurt Mayer for Kurt Mayer Film
    Kurt Mayer for Kurt Mayer Film
Key collaborator
    Tobias Götz
    Tobias Götz
Narrator
    Julia Govor
    Julia Govor
Cinematography
    Gabriel Krajanek,
    Tobias Götz
    Gabriel Krajanek,
    Tobias Götz
Sound Design
    Fabian Fenk
    Fabian Fenk
Screening copy
    Kurt Mayer for Kurt Mayer Film
    Kurt Mayer for Kurt Mayer Film

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